228 x 114 x 2 cm
Maria Taniguchi works across several media but is principally known for her long-running series of quasi-abstract paintings featuring a stylized brick wall device. Full of subtle gradations and low-key modulations, these are her trademark: a sustained, reiterative practice, steeped in repetition but carefully attuned to the economies and the sculptural presence of painting. Her approach to painting is conceptual. Her point of departure for the series is individual, subjective time. The unified visual grid of the black monochrome acrylic paintings is based on the simplest repeating pattern in masonry, yet when viewed more closely their stark surfaces veer more towards the personal and poetic: glistening patches of irregular shapes and sizes reveal the limits of a days work.
Throughout her paintings, sculptures, and videos, Maria Taniguchi unpacks knowledge and experience—connecting material culture, technology, and natural evolution—and investigates space and time, along with social and historical contexts. Whether with her quasi-abstract brick paintings or with the moving images of plain and everyday objects, Taniguchi enforces the action of viewing upon our senses. The consequence is the reinterpretation of the objects, and the attainment of sensorial and cognitive experiences.
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